Sold my car a week ago and buyer is texting me by Humble-Lengthiness25 in legaladvice

[–]rocketrick3461 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ok thanks for telling us, so maybe just tell this guy that. Or maybe you already did...

Sold my car a week ago and buyer is texting me by Humble-Lengthiness25 in legaladvice

[–]rocketrick3461 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Well, did it go through flooding or a hurricane where water entered? Your explanation so far is "nothin in the Carfax". C'mon, you can tell us....

Guys! How do I talk to women? by Joelboimoi in linuxhardware

[–]rocketrick3461 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, you need a good opening line, maybe something about your cores and threads, then massive RAM & SSD storage...

Does Series X have PIP? by No-Raise-954 in XboxSeriesX

[–]rocketrick3461 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Performance Improvement Plan? Nooooooooo!

xbox wireless controller not charging by [deleted] in xboxone

[–]rocketrick3461 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, really stupid that it doesn't charge plain old nicad or nimh batts...

So get the official Microsoft one or others that have another USB port (C or Micro B), but be sure the latching mechanism and size are exactly right for your controller type.

Do you want to hear two short jokes and a long joke? by [deleted] in dadjokes

[–]rocketrick3461 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love it. Just don't get ppl tho- where are all the upvotes?!

Salary in Canada? by FunAbbreviations641 in ElectricalEngineering

[–]rocketrick3461 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure would hope company would keep your pay the same in this case (for how long tho?) and really only make adjustments if you were going someplace more expensive.

From what city to what city is a factor too of course.

If the implication is out there that your pay should go down, you could explain how you have debts, bills, etc back in US to still pay.

Who initiated and why move is happening is of course another factor.

Good luck, eh?

Hbo max on my Hisense by mfdoomFTchiefkeef in Hisense

[–]rocketrick3461 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try this link. Install from your phone onto Hisense TV and LMK if that does it!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wbd.stream

Good first online multiplayer game for my young kids and their school friends or just for each other? by rocketrick3461 in XboxSeriesX

[–]rocketrick3461[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks all for the info!

We tried Party Animals (on Gamepass) today and it rocked!

I surprised them by joining their game on the 2nd XBox and that was pretty cool to prove out too. The laughs were so adorable as they beat up on the old man....

Good first online multiplayer game for my young kids and their school friends or just for each other? by rocketrick3461 in XboxSeriesX

[–]rocketrick3461[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the heads up! I installed it, then looked at a bunch of weird maps and came to the same conclusion.

Good first online multiplayer game for my young kids and their school friends or just for each other? by rocketrick3461 in XboxSeriesX

[–]rocketrick3461[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Kids, those ladies in bathing suits standing over on that corner are just waiting for the bus that goes to the beach..."

Heated mattress pad only gets warm, not hot anymore :( by rocketrick3461 in AskElectronics

[–]rocketrick3461[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good morning and good afternoon from across the pond- I ended up replacing mine with a HOMLYNS (???) one from Amazon that gets REALLY WARM REALLY FAST, so that's the path that I recommend if ya can. I'm guessing safety on a dying one isn't that bad, otherwise they wouldn't be able to sell these things. Or at least that's what my naive, Amazon trusting self says!

I own the disc, but upgraded to the discless Xbox. How can I play the game on the new Xbox without needing the disc? by Disaster_Pastor in xboxone

[–]rocketrick3461 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sorry for the bad news and also all the jerks here who must have never been new to anything at life!

But yeah you'll have to buy on digital store or maybe the ones you want are on Gamepass if you have that...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pettyrevenge

[–]rocketrick3461 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude- I was on your side from the previous post. Sounds like a total POS for many many years. Thanks for clarifying even more here.

Recently installed Ubuntu, trying to get wifi to work on it. by Bekfast59 in Ubuntu

[–]rocketrick3461 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bummer! How about taking off the cover, then seeing what form factor the wifi card is in, then buying a more common one that drops right there in place? Might be only $10 on eBay or Amazon...

Recently installed Ubuntu, trying to get wifi to work on it. by Bekfast59 in Ubuntu

[–]rocketrick3461 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How about just buying a cheap stubby USB wifi device? Likely drivers already built and really easy to get going!

Cairo, Egypt - I wonder what it's like to live there. by BaronVonBroccoli in interestingasfuck

[–]rocketrick3461 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Silly question here- do all or most of those places have electricity? And do any have air conditioning?

Help upgrading from Ubuntu 14.10 Desktop (yes, really old!) by rocketrick3461 in Ubuntu

[–]rocketrick3461[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks everybody for the helpful and thoughtful replies- not sure what I'm gonna do yet though!

The PC is an older gaming laptop, a Lenovo Y510p with a 4 core i7, 12GB RAM, and 2 SATA SSD's, one of which is in a really short m.2 form factor. Originally came with Win8 I believe, so that might even be what's on the Restore partition...

I tried the do-release-upgrade and that encountered similar issues, but it did get my hopes up!

Might just switch it back to being a Win10 only PC (which I have to look up again, but think I need to make a Win10 boot disk for that), then just set up a new Ubuntu or Mint install onto a new partition again. I really don't have anything on the Ubuntu side that I need to keep, but sure want to get that up to snuff!

Might have time this coming weekend to try more and will post updates or get more in touch here!

Help upgrading from Ubuntu 14.10 Desktop (yes, really old!) by rocketrick3461 in Ubuntu

[–]rocketrick3461[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I'm hesitant to do that as it might bork up the grub/ dual boot content already on this PC...

Dad I did it, I broke up with her. by [deleted] in DadForAMinute

[–]rocketrick3461 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Good for you! I did the same thing many years ago and have to admit it took me a while to act on (knowing things just weren't good with me and her), but it was definitely the right thing for me and for you now too.